Edited by Pam Brown

The third installment of Pam Brown’s feature “Fifty-one Contemporary Poets from Australia” (ordered, “[i]n the interest of objectivity,” by “a recently invented ‘downunder’ method — the reverse alphabet”) includes work from Astrid Lorange, Kate Lilley, Miriel Lenore, John Kinsella, Cath Kenneally, S. K. Kelen, Kit Kelen, Jill Jones, Duncan Hose, and Keri Glastonbury, along with artwork by Robert Pulie and Ken Bolton. You can read Brown’s introduction here, and the first two installments can be found here and here. — Michael S. Hennessey

About this feature

The third of five sections of Pam Brown’s 2011–2012 feature devoted to fifty-one contemporary poets from Australia, part 3 collects work by Astrid Lorange, Kate Lilley, Miriel Lenore, John Kinsella, Cath Kenneally, S. K. Kelen, Kit Kelen, Jill Jones, Duncan Hose, and Keri Glastonbury, along with artwork by Robert Pulie and Ken Bolton.

Listen along with the feature

In conjunction with this Jacket2 feature, Pam Brown organized a PennSound anthology of Australian poetry that showcases recordings from more than two dozen of the poets found herein. The majority of these recordings were made over the past several years, and give outsiders an excellent sense of the reading series in Australia and New Zealand that are driving a vital poetry scene (in much the same way that this feature stresses the network of journals sustaining the scene).